UK Visas

If your proposed course of study is for less than 6 months, then you should apply for a student visitor visa. Our Visitor (INF 2) guidance has information on requirements for a student visitor visa.

Further information on Tier 4 of the Points Based System is available at Quick guides.
For online visa application visit visa4uk.

Qualification:
For Children
your parents live and are settled in the UK legally, with no time limit on their stay, or are being admitted for settlement at the same time
one parent is living and settled in the UK or is being admitted for settlement on the same occasion and has had sole responsibility for your upbringing
your parents can support you without help from public funds;
your parents have adequate accommodation, owned or occupied exclusively by them, where you can live without help from public funds
under 18 years of age
are not leading an independent life, are not married and have not formed an independent family unit.

For parents
you are wholly or mainly financially dependent on children or grandchildren living and settled in the UK
you are without other close relatives in your own country to turn to
your children or grandchildren can support you without help from public funds
your children or grandchildren have adequate accommodation, owned or occupied exclusively by them, where you can live without help from public funds.

Required Documents:
Your valid passport or travel document.
Fully filled (VAF 4) application form, two recent passport-sized (45mm x 35mm), color photographs.
Visa fee, which is non refundable.
Evidence that your sponsor (e.g., the relative you are applying to join) is settled in the UK, in the form of an attested copy of their passport or registration certificate.
Recent statements or letters from your sponsors UK employer, bank, local authority or building society on the support and accommodation that will be available for you in the UK
Your original birth certificate
Evidence of financial support from the UK, such as payments from your sponsor or a house provided by your sponsor.
For more and most recent information visit family member visa.

Qualification:
Is not leading an independent life, is not married and has not formed an independent family unit
Is under 18 years.
Was adopted when both parents lived together abroad or when either parent was settled in the United Kingdom.
Has the same rights as any other child of the adoptive parents
Was adopted because their original parents could not care for them and there has been a genuine transfer of parental responsibility.
Has broken all ties with their original family.
Was not adopted just to make it easier to enter the United Kingdom.

Required Documents:
Your valid passport or travel document.
Fully filled (VAF 7) application form, two recent passport-sized (45mm x 35mm), color photographs
Visa fee, which is non refundable.
The child’s original birth certificate showing its name at birth.
A report from the overseas equivalent of the social services department giving the child’s full history and how the adoption came about., or in the case of a relative adoption a full statement in writing from the adoptive parents.
Where the child has been abandoned, a certificate of abandonment from the authorities previously responsible for the child.
For more and most recent information visit acv